Option to disable or lock rotation while camera is showing

[firsthour]

Our users will be scanning quite a few vertical mounted barcode stickers, and while testing our app out on location the other day I had to lock screen rotation of my Android phone at the OS level because I was unable to scan a barcode without the screen constantly rotating.

Is it possible to lock rotation of just the camera scanning? I would prefer to allow the user to use both landscape or portrait while using the app regularly.

For what it's worth I tried the following code on the screen that launched the scanning and while it locked that screen's orientation, it did not affect the camera itself:

SystemChrome.setPreferredOrientations([ DeviceOrientation.portraitUp, DeviceOrientation.portraitDown, ]);

[firsthour]

Solved it pretty easy for Android, edited the AndroidManifest:

<activity android:name="com.apptreesoftware.barcodescan.BarcodeScannerActivity" android:screenOrientation="portrait" />

I am completely unfamiliar with IOS, is there a similar solution? I honestly don't even know if it will be an issue.

[devtronic]

You can specify the orientation in Xcode (Select the Target -> General -> Deployment Info -> Device Orientation)